Word: gristly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a lot more. The inspectors apparently went to ridiculous and illegal extremes to hassle the owners of the Ye Old Grist Mill, Coffee Connection and the Cambridge Food Coop...
...apartheid; Arab members last year attempted to punish Israel in similar fashion by equating apartheid and other forms of racism with Zionism. In the wake of Vorster's visit, renewed efforts are almost certain. Said a U.S. analyst specializing in Israeli affairs: "It's only grist for the Zionism-racist mill...
...regard it not as the common link between the settlements, but as a private resource to be exploited by whichever village could, to the exclusion of the rest. It wau Abraham Shaw of Dedham who first had the bright idea of using the river to power a public grist mill. The town was enthusiastic and work began immediately, in 1636. Unfortunately, dramatic alterations in Shaw's scheme proved necessary, as the Charles was simply too lazy to turn a mill. These alterations were left to John Elderkin, who diverted the river down a precipitous slope to his grist mill. This...
...river mouth was to be filled in. The process was set in motion when the city of Boston decided it needed to expand. First it filled in the large Mill Pond near what is now the North End. To replace the water power (used for turning the city's grist mills) produced by the dam around the Mill Pond, the Legislature approved in 1819 a new dam stretching from what is now Brighton across the Back Bay to the Boston Common...
THERE ARE THOSE nations which, by the very nature of their regimes, seem to be grist for self-styled international code decipherers. Kremlinology, the effort to analyze the internal power structure of the Soviet Union by use of various symbols, such as who was standing next to whom in what photograph, who received a favorable review in this or that Soviet academic journal, or who accompanied Brezhnev on his Eastern European tour, is not by any means an exact science. But it is a legitimate science, in that the American media recognizes such speculation as worthwhile, and newspapers...